In his book, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Hour, Eleventh Minute, which records the final 30 minutes of World War I, Joseph E. Persico, a pacifist, complains how so many of the generals sat on their laurels, sipping tea, and doing battle from the safety of their office while sending their men into suicidal attempts to break the German’s Hindenburg Line.

But our Commander in Chief did not do this. He personally went to the front line of battle and waged the fiercest war ever to be fought. And he won by defeat...